Thylacine

19/06/2026

Such an incredible achievement for Our Wondrous Planet, Museums Victoria and all involved! We’re proud to have designed the Wild Family gallery within this new permanent exhibition at Melbourne Museum, alongside our project partners Eye Candy and Show Works. The immersive display features hundreds of extraordinary animal specimens that form part of our extended genetic family.

We’re proud to share that Our Wondrous Planet at Melbourne Museum has been recognised with the Installation Design award at the 2026 Australian Interior Design Awards🎖️ This achievement celebrates the creativity, innovation and collaboration behind this immersive exhibition experience.

🌍 Taking visitors on a journey from polar ice and coral reefs to rainforests and the hidden ecosystems beneath our feet, Our Wondrous Planet explores the interconnected systems that support life on Earth. Through immersive design and storytelling, the exhibition encourages curiosity, wonder and a deeper connection to the natural world.

This award is a testament to the talent, creativity and dedication of the many people who brought Our Wondrous Planet to life. Congratulations to the entire team on this well-deserved recognition and for creating an experience that inspires curiosity and connection with the natural world.

18/06/2026

We were very saddened to hear that Show Works has closed its doors this week. They have been a valued collaborator on so many of our projects, including the recently opened BridgeMuseum. The team has been proactive, creative and supportive in helping us deliver our sometimes — perhaps always — demanding and complex designs.

The Show Works team are incredibly skilled and capable joiners and fabricators, and we’re hopeful we’ll see their talent re emerge in new forms.

Wishing Tim and the whole team all the very best for what comes next.

05/06/2026

Earlier this week on Reconciliation Day, our Thylacine team got amongst it – in support of this year’s theme ALL IN!

In Canberra, our team attended the Reconciliation Day Event, including a Welcome to Country, Smoking Ceremony, cultural stalls, and a brilliant performance by Wiradjuri Echoes. In Melbourne, our team went to Fed Square, where they listened to Brooke Wandin’s audio installation of family sharing ‘We Speak Language’, and visited the immersive sound and moving image artwork ‘occupation studies: ngayanhurra bayarral Birrarung (they tried to tame Birrarung)’, by artist Tahlia Palmer and Jasper Cohen-Hunter at the Koori Heritage Trust.

05/06/2026

Now open at the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge!

We thoroughly enjoyed the opening night of the BridgeMuseum, particularly made special with a personal Welcome from Gadigal Elder Uncle Charles Davison and the opportunity to share stories with Rhonda Bolden, a life-long bridge memorabilia collector who provided her collection for inclusion in the exhibition.

The BridgeMuseum brings to life the extraordinary story of the Sydney Harbour Bridge within one of its most distinctive and challenging spaces, the historic sandstone pylon at the Bridge's southern end.

The highlight of the exhibition experience is an immersive theatre that occupies the full height of the Pylon. With a finale of interactive fireworks, the visitor is transported on a visual and auditory journey across time and space, celebrating not only the vision and expertise of building the Bridge, but more profoundly the icon it has become; a symbol of civic pride and collective identity.

28/05/2026

28/05/2026

Great to see visitors enjoying the new BridgeMuseum! We're thrilled to have contributed to such a significant project

26/05/2026

National Reconciliation Week kicks off today!

This year’s theme, ALL IN, is a call for all of us to step off the sidelines and take real action toward reconciliation. It’s not passive, and it’s not the responsibility of a few. It’s on all of us.

Our team is looking forward to getting involved in events throughout the week, and we encourage you to explore what’s happening in your local community and take part.

26/05/2026

Sorry + action = the path to reconciliation 🖤

22/05/2026

Fantastic to hear that Museums Victoria has been shortlisted for Our Wondrous Planet at the Australian Interior Design Awards!

Thylacine was commissioned to collaborate with scientists, designers, and storytellers to bring the Wild Animals gallery to life, one part of this extraordinary new natural history experience at Melbourne Museum.

Image: Our Wondrous Planet, credit Museums Victoria

28/04/2026

I never met my grandfather Stan.

He died 3 days before Christmas in December 1959 one year before any of his 13 grandchildren were born. I’m at the tail end of the grandchildren, number 10. Stan’s youngest children Johnny and my mum Susan were still at home and only 14 and 17 years old when he died suddenly at age 65. His other two Michael and Jocelyn were already out of the nest and making their way in the world at 20 and 23.

Stan enlisted in October 1915 at age 20 and served in WW1 in France. His father Alfred had told him it was his duty to go and to serve. It is his father’s name who is listed as his next of kin on the Australian Imperial Force Roll. Stan did as his father entreated him to do and enlisted and served in France.

He was a driver and gunner, driving the horse drawn cart of munitions up to the front line, over and over again. He was a good horseman and miraculously returned to Australia from his service in April 1919. His best friend who was in the same line when they enlisted and whose service number is a one number increment up from Stan’s didn’t return home. He died on the front line standing close to Stan.

Stan didn’t marry my grandmother Flora until he was 40 years old. He wasn’t sure if he wanted to bring children into this world it took him many years to recover as best as he could from the mental and physical toll that the war had taken on his mind and body.

At the end of his service he was not permitted to bring his beloved horse Windmill home with him and like many other soldiers he was made to euthanise his fellow survivor and best friend.

I have heard that Stan could divine water and established artesian bores that still stand on Pinkilla station near Quilpie in Queensland; where all of Stan and Flora’s children were born. I have heard from my mother’s stories that anything that he made was always made to perfection, his agricultural college training served him well, from a chook shed to a veggie garden his craftsmanship shone!

Once waiting at the train station, a loud unexpected sound from the approaching train caused him to hit the deck, reflexively, his body memory of war and survival instinct still functioning strong into his civilian years. His life was shortened due to the stresses and strains put on his body during his years of service. He left this world without meeting the next generation to come.

I never met my grandfather Stan though I do have a grandfather sized impression of him a soft indent in my soul, memories, photographs and records to try to conjure him with.

Lest we forget.

25 April 2026